Serum androgen levels are positively correlated with athletic performance and competition results in elite female athletes

Br J Sports Med. 2018 Dec;52(23):1531-1532. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099700. Epub 2018 Jul 7.

Authors

Stéphane Bermon^{1

2}, Angelica Lindén Hirschberg^{3

4}, Jan Kowalski⁵, Emma Eklund³

Affiliations

¹ LAMHESS, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.
² Monaco Institute of Sports Medicine and Surgery, Monaco, Monaco.
³ Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ JK Biostatistics AB, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 29982225
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099700

No abstract available

Keywords: athletics; elite performance; endocrine; women in sport.

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MeSH terms

Athletes
Athletic Performance*
Female
Humans
Mass Spectrometry
Track and Field*